Items with tag “adoptions”

July 26, 2013, 5:37PM

In response to Belinda St. Leger's July 19 letter to the editor "Will women denied abortion get support?": Pro-choicers are always talking about the poor pregnant women who don't want their babies, or can't take care of the child financially or emotionally, and the fact that now it's becoming harder and harder to get an abortion. Now this might... Full story »

March 25, 2013, 10:00PM

With medical bills from two failed births and an adoption cost facing them, Tom and Christine Lambotte asked their Columbus agency where else they could look for money. That's when the idea of crowdfunding arose. Full story »

March 19, 2013, 9:38AM

It is hard to imagine the world without people like YOU. You fight every day to ensure that animals have a safe place to lay their heads at night. Like you, I spend many nights lying awake in bed wondering how we will save the next one…and the one after that. Full story »

December 27, 2012, 10:36PM

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he intends to sign into a law a bill banning U.S. adoptions of Russian children, even as he plans to scrutinize the final draft of the legislation after it was approved by parliament. Full story »

December 27, 2012, 8:43AM

The law would block dozens of Russian children expected to be adopted by American families from leaving the country and cut off one of the main international routes for Russian children to leave often dismal orphanages. Full story »

April 15, 2010, 6:48PM

While there are thousands of children adopted from overseas who flourish in the U.S., others face numerous health risks, such as fetal alcohol spectrum, attachment disorders, mental health issues and other disabilities that will last a lifetime. Full story »

April 15, 2010, 10:28AM

Russia has suspended all adoptions to U.S. families until the two countries can agree on procedures, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday — a week after an American woman sent her 7-year-old adopted son back to Russia on a plane by himself. Full story »

February 23, 2010, 10:13PM

Foreigners detained, Haitians enraged, children caught in the middle: The scenario that played out this week echoed the case of 10 Americans caught trying to spirit youngsters out of this earthquake-ravaged nation. Full story »

February 10, 2010, 6:32PM

In the days after the Haiti earthquake, Laura Silsby made a series of calls around the country to mobilize a trip to rescue orphaned children from the disaster. She enlisted members of her Baptist church and told them she had all the necessary paperwork. She even found a Kentucky couple, Richard and Malinda Pickett, who had been trying to adopt three siblings from Haiti and told them she could get the children out. But a closer look at Silsby's life shows that the adoption fiasco follows a predictable pattern surrounding the 40-year-old businesswoman and mother of three: Her big promises and big dreams often give way to questionable actions and frequent legal action. Full story »

February 04, 2010, 6:57PM

Ten members of a U.S. missionary group who said they were trying to rescue 33 child victims of Haiti's devastating earthquake were charged with child kidnapping and criminal association on Thursday, their lawyer said. Full story »

February 04, 2010, 6:34PM

The Idaho woman who led a group of 10 Baptists on a mission to help children in Haiti admits to failing to obtain paperwork needed to move 33 children to the Dominican Republic. But even before Laura L. Silsby and seven other Idahoans ended up in a Haitian jail accused of trafficking in children, Silsby had a history of failing to pay debts, failing to pay her employees and failing even to follow Idaho laws. Full story »

January 27, 2010, 6:41PM

What merchandise was the Chinese peasant couple selling? Babies. And the customers were government-run orphanages that paid up to $600 each for newborn girls for adoption in the United States and other Western countries. "They couldn't get enough babies. The demand kept going up and up, and so did the prices," recalled Duan Yuelin, who was released from prison last month after serving about four years of a six-year sentence for child trafficking. Full story »

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